I am Senior Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the Italian National Research Council IIT-CNR. Here my page on the IIT website.

 

I got a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from University of Pisa, in 2005, working on formal techniques to verify security properties of multicast communication protocols.

The years passed, and the research themes changed as well. In 2012, I started studying detection techniques able to unveil fake accounts and low reputable information sources.​

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Invited Speaker @1st Conference on Sociotechnical Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP2026), Luxembourg, Sept. 2-3, 2026

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Invited Speaker @ AIxIA AI consapevole 2026, Perugia, Oct 5, 2026

 

New journal paper in Scientific Reports:

Understanding mental health discourse on Reddit with transformers and explainability

Irene Sanchez et al., 2026

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In 2026, I serve as 

• Senior PC Member @ CIKM 2026

• Senior PC Member @ WWW 2026, "Search and retrieval-augmented AI" track

• General Co-chair @ROMCIR 2026: the 6th Intl. Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation via Credible Information Retrieval

• PC Member @ too many actually..

  • WWW 2026, "Responsible Web" track

  • ECIR 2026, "IR for Good" track

  • SAC 2026, Intelligence Systems in the Digital Era (ISDE)

  • SAFE-SN 2026

  • Baltic DB&IS 2026

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In 2027, I will serve as 

• PC Member @ ITASEC 2027

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I was appointed Chair of the scientific technical committee for the evaluation of PRIN 2022 projects PNRR Panel PE1 PE6

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